The role of parent health literacy among urban children with persistent asthma

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 368-375

  Shone, Laura P ^a   Conn, Kelly M ^a   Sanders, Lee ^b   Halterman, Jill S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Asthma burden; Asthma care; Child asthma; Child health; Health behavior; Health beliefs; Health literacy; Low income; Medical care; PACQOL; Pediatric care; Poverty; Provider patient communication; REALM; Urban children

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL STRESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROLE STRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEVERE PERSISTENT ASTHMA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PARENT; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PARENTING; PARENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67349253536     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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